Zhuge Long and the martial arts masters of the Nine Prominent Sects took a ship to Jingzhou, then traveled on foot to the Great Zhuge Family’s home base at Mount Longzhong. They picked up the pace upon receiving word at Jingzhou that the elite members of the Changjiang Waterway Alliance and Seventy-Two Strongholds of Lulin were gathering at Mount Longzhong. They had to return to base before the elite members of the Changjiang Waterway Alliance and Seventy-Two Strongholds of Lulin could launch an attack.

Using the main road to move as fast as they could, they passed through Jingmen in just two days after getting off the ship at Jingzhou. At their current speed, they would likely reach Mount Longzhong within four days at the latest. However, on the way to Mount Longzhong, around a hundred people blocked their path.

The expressions of Zhuge Long and the other martial artists hardened upon seeing the group. Considering they were well-equipped with weapons and blocked the main road in broad daylight, they were clearly up to no good. What gave them away, however, was the horrendous demonic qi emanating from them. Zhuge Long and the others immediately concluded that they were demonic practitioners from the Nine Celestial Demon Sect.

“You’re too late. I’ve been dying of boredom just waiting for you people to arrive,” Shi Woo-Kang, a member of the group, said as he stretched. He was known as the Demonic Wind Monarch, one of the Seven Monarchs of Myriad Tribulations.

“You all seem to be from the Nine Celestial Demons Sect,”...